> which would make Gnome and its components impossible to run on systems without systemd. This is my main complaint. Most programmers know that coupling separa

> which would make Gnome and its components impossible to run on systems without systemd. This is my main complaint. Most programmers know that coupling separate components is a bad idea[0]. After a while, the two components merge; they will begin to interface to lower and lower levels of each other, with the result being a giant mass of interdependent spaghetti code. Your choice of desktop manager should not, in any way, dictate which init system you use. And with system taking udev and everything else with it, it may be almost impossible to separate out systemd ever again. [0] I was going to link to the Stevens paper, but even wikipedia has an article about the problems of coupling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupling_(computer_programming) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupling_(computer_programming...